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“Bid Buddy is integrated with Inventory Buddy and your part selection, interchange, and pricing from your bids transfer to Inventory Buddy when that VIN is loaded to the tablet. Bidding speed with Bid Buddy has improved greatly over the last two years. If you haven’t tried it recently, you should! We have a 60-day, money back guarantee, so you have nothing to lose and a lot of money to save when buy- ing cars.”
Buddy Automotive has been in business since July of 2003. Johnson agrees with Lambert that they con- sider themselves leaders in the auto recycling industry when it comes to bidding software. “We are the leader in the auto recycling industry for inventory and auction bidding software,” said Lambert. “The software works across all platforms of yard management programs (Hollander HYMS and Powerlink 2, Pinnacle Classic and Pro, and Checkmate).
Think Software
Think Software has developed an App which links their “whole of business” software to your iPhone, iPad or iPod, plus your website and eBay in real time, according to Ian Thorp, Director, Think Software. The Think Software program is the most extensive auto recycling software in the world and it encapsu- lates the “whole of business” procedures for this industry, from automated stock inputting and stock control to financial accounting, marketing modules, stock bidding and customer CRM.
Think Software has been in the market place for over 20 years in Australia and New Zealand and auto- mates the “whole” Auto Recycling process including Interchange and Data Share.
At Think we believe that “Increased Profitability” will only come from improved productivity. Think Software and its app’s now eliminate over 25 current manual processes from any auto recycling business. Imagine being able to automatically monitor your
staff’s daily performance. Improve your business productivity by reviewing daily demographics of your warehouse and dismantling staff and you can easily increase profitability.
Need to bid on a vehicle, do a stock take, look up stock or take a picture while on the road or in the warehouse? Then Think’s iPhone App and cradle allows you to do all this with instant updating of your in-house software, website and eBay store. Make deci- sions based on real time facts anywhere in the world. It even allows you to take a credit card payment where you stand.
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Think Software is the next generation of prof- itability for the auto recycling industry. It puts the power of decision making in the palm of your hand.
CRUSH Vehicle Bidding
CRUSH incorporates three tools for the purchase of vehicles. The first is the vehicle weight. CRUSH integrates to scales for real time automatic calcula- tions and incorporates curb weights as well, when the VIN is entered. The auto recycler simply adds the price per ton/hundred and it will calculate. Second, CRUSH uses it’s Interchange feature to calculate all searches that are conducted and has the ability to report “In” and “Out” of stock activity. A recycler has the option of showing the top requested vehicles.
According to Dimitri Gerontis, principal of S3 Software Solutions, makers of CRUSH, “This is a great tool for understanding the product mix of your yard and how many times employees are asking the questions to shoppers about finding parts.” Lastly, CRUSH utilizes an essential parts feature that can identify part sales back to a specific stock number (vehicle) in a recycler’s yard. This aims to help a recycler track activity to individual vehicles. This part tracking also enables buyers to look for high volume parts on vehicles when bidding. “Our software is unique for the U-Pull-It yard due to the specific design for the business model,” said Gerontis. “All three areas of CRUSH can be used in unison to accomplish better choices when bidding for your yard. CRUSH also allows the user to easily send VIN numbers to your core buyers for an addi- tional layer of analytics.”
The CRUSH system has two built-in payment methods. The first is an internal check writing system with many user controls. The second is an ATM or cash dispensing unit for payment of vehicles and/or cores in a secure fashion. Gerontis says one of the big benefits is that there is “no more cash laying around for you to worry about. “ “One of the largest hurdles for recyclers in using buying apps is the disjointed nature between buyers and data,” said Gerontis.
“There are so many points of analysis that the final calculation on a vehicle for U-Pull-It yards can take too long to give a solid quote on a phone call. The CRUSH Vehicle Bidding tool tears down that hurdle by making it much easier to see exactly what is best for your yard in a matter of minutes and at a time when it’s convenient for you.”
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